Almost 50pc patients recovered from virus across country.

LAHORE -- Out of total 217,809 COVID-19 positive patients, at least 104,694 have so far recovered from the disease across the country.

During the last 24 hours, the virus claimed lives of 78 people across the country, taking the death tally to 4473. Some 22, 128 corona tests were carried out during this period.

According to official, out of 77,740 corona patients, 28,266 have recovered successfully in Punjab. In Sindh, 86,795 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported. Of these, 48,527 have recovered.

26,938 cases have so far been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and of these 13,584 have recovered.

In Balochistan, 10,608 coronavirus have so far been reported. Of these, 4,764 have recovered.

13,082 cases have so far been reported in Islamabad and recoveries are 7,850. In Azad Kashmir, there are 1,135 confirmed cases of coronavirus and of these 557 have recovered whilst in Gilgit-Baltistan, out of 1,511 cases, 1,146 patients have recovered.

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Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Security, Dr. Moeed Yusuf on Thursday said that the country acted most responsibly to check spread of COVID-19 and now screening of passengers travelling abroad has also been made mandatory.

Briefing media at National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), he advised the outbound passengers to act responsibly and added they should not embark upon foreign travel if they did not have compelling reasons.

He said that passengers should not set sail for...